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Texas Lawsuit Alleging Fraud in Construction of First Border Wall Comes Apart
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune A judge has dismissed a number of charges filed by a South Texas county against a former official accused of fraud in the...
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Kushner Companies Decides to Fight Tenants in State Court Rather Than Reveal...
by Alec MacGillis Jared Kushner’s family real estate company has backtracked on its effort to have a lawsuit filed against it by tenants of its Baltimore-area apartment complexes moved to federal...
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Houston-Area Officials Approved a Plan for Handling a Natural Disaster — Then...
by Jessica Huseman and Decca Muldowney Seven months before Hurricane Harvey inundated the Houston area with a trillion gallons of water and led to widespread criticism of the Red Cross, Harris County...
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ProPublica Hires Reporter Caroline Chen to Cover Health Care
ProPublica ProPublica announced today that it has hired Caroline Chen as a reporter covering health care. Chen comes to ProPublica from Bloomberg News, where her reporting has focused on the drug...
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I Approved This Facebook Message — But You Don’t Know That
by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Hundreds of federal political ads — including those from major players such as the Democratic National Committee and the Donald Trump 2020 campaign — are running on...
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‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast Extra: Trump’s Company Is Getting $175 Million Annually...
by Andrea Bernstein, WNYC and Eric Umansky, ProPublica Forbes reporters figured out that the president’s company pulls in an estimated $175 million in commercial rent annually. One of Trump’s major...
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ProPublica Wins 35 Society for News Design Awards of Excellence
ProPublica The Society for News Design honored ProPublica with 35 Awards of Excellence in this year’s Best of Digital Design competition. The annual competition honors journalistic, visual and...
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‘Trump Inc.’ Podcast: Money Laundering and the Trump Taj Mahal
by Heather Vogell, ProPublica, and Ilya Marritz, WNYC Just months before Donald Trump announced his bid for president in 2015, federal regulators announced they were slapping one of his longtime...
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The Sound and the Fury: Inside the Mystery of the Havana Embassy
by Tim Golden and Sebastian Rotella It was a cool night for Havana, with the temperature falling into the mid-70s, and the diplomat and his family were feeling very good about their assignment to...
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ProPublica Wins February Sidney Award for “Trashed: Inside the Deadly World...
ProPublica The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced today that Investigative Fund reporter Kiera Feldman’s collaboration with ProPublica, “Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage...
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El sonido y la furia: Dentro del misterio de la embajada de La Habana
por Tim Golden, Sebastian Rotella Era una noche fresca para La Habana, con la temperatura cayendo cerca de los 20 grados, y el diplomático y su familia se estaban sintiendo muy bien con su misión en...
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Reporter David Armstrong to Cover Health Care for ProPublica
ProPublica ProPublica announced today that David Armstrong is joining its staff as a senior reporter covering health care. Armstrong comes to ProPublica from STAT, where he was a senior enterprise...
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The CFPB’s Declaration of Dependence
by Jesse Eisinger In early February, the Federal Reserve delivered its most significant punishment of a major bank in a generation, sanctioning Wells Fargo for its pattern of customer exploitation. A...
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Cook County’s Residential Property Tax Assessments Deeply Unfair, Independent...
by Jason Grotto, ProPublica, and Hal Dardick, Chicago Tribune Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios has been producing error-ridden property assessments that effectively punished poor homeowners while...
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Congressman Calls For Investigation Of Conservative Think Tank
by Mick Dumke, ProPublica, and Tina Sfondeles, Chicago Sun-Times U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether a series of financial deals improperly benefited...
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How We Made Our Illinois Governor’s Campaign Finance Widget
by David Eads Loading... Hi! I’m David Eads, news apps developer at ProPublica Illinois. I want to tell you about a widget we released last week that tracks fundraising in the Illinois governor’s...
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The Trump Administration Goes to War — With Itself — Over the VA
by Isaac Arnsdorf David Shulkin, the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, showed up to what he thought would be a routine Senate oversight hearing in January, only to discover it was an...
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How Political Pessimism Helps Doom Tougher Gun Laws
by Alec MacGillis It’s predictable after every new mass-shooting horror: The political right’s reflexive call for “thoughts and prayers,” which is then mocked by people who favor more gun restrictions...
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Election Security a High Priority — Until It Comes to Paying for New Voting...
by Kate Rabinowitz When poll workers arrived at 6 a.m. to open the voting location in Allentown, New Jersey, for last November’s gubernatorial election, they found that none of the borough’s four...
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When Is a Story Ready to Publish?
by Melissa Sanchez Recently, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. Questions have been rolling in ever since, and we’ve been answering them in an...
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